The
speaker at our next meeting on April 27th will be Alair Townsend.
She has been the Publisher of Crain’s New
York Business since 1989. For those of you who don’t
live in New York, it is a well known New York weekly newspaper covering the New York City economy and business community
and regional. You can read more about Alair
Townsend in the latest Bulletin on our website at www.nyrotary.org/bulletin2004/bulletin_04-27-2004.pdf(click on the link).

New York Rotary President Greg Lynch has written an article in the
memory of our member Howard MacPherson, who recently passed away at the
respectable age of 100 years. You can read Greg’s article on our website
atwww.nyrotary.org/president_greg/knowing_howard.htm.

This week’s Reporter of
the Week in the Bulletin is written by Nick Uresin, who joined our Rotary Club
in 2003. Thank you Nick for a very good report! Nick’s classification is E-Business
Software and he is the President of Amazia, Inc.

The Bulletin has a whole
page about the President’s Dinner Cruise on board the Mystique, which will start
on Wednesday, May 12 at 6 PM. The departure is from the New
York Skyport Marina at 23rd
Street and East River
at 6:30 sharp. The price is $100. You can read more about it in the Bulletin
and on our website at http://207.21.237.12/dinnercruise/.

You can read in the
Bulletin about the New York Cares Day Central Park Cleanup on May 1st. We have been
assigned the cleanup site of Forest Park Victory Field. For those, who want to
participate can contact Ozgem at ornektekin@pbworld.com. In my newsletter last
week, Ozgem’s e-mail address was incorrect due to a typo. Please note Ozgem’s
correct e-mail address in this paragraph.

The Bulletin announces
the birthdays for Christ’l Dullaert on April 27th and Gian Carlo
Treggi on April 30th. Happy Birthday to both of you! Christ’l is now
working hard on making the upcoming Netherlands Day on June 15th equal or
better than our Sweden
Day last January 27th, which I was told has become the bench mark of
standard for all national days at our legendary Rotary Club. Good luck Christ’l,
Erik Enroth and I will be there on June 15th to enjoy it.

Our Board of Directors
has approved Jordan Stojanvoski as a new member of the Rotary Club of New York. His
classification is Software Developer and his company is Logyx Computer Corp.
Welcome to our Rotary Club!

You can also read in the
Bulletin that Past President Ed Gray invites us for a bridge game in his new
apartment building at 240 East 31st
Street. If you are a dedicated Bridge Player, you
can contact Ed via e-mail at egray@analytic.nb.com. I have not played Bridge
in 30 years, so I don’t think that I would qualify.

Our Newsletter is read
by Rotarians around the world. An example of this is the following message that
I received from Ron Wilson in Australia:

Matts,

I
was very interested in your article on the awards for Fire-fighters, so much so
that I suggested to our President Elect, that we should look at instituting a
similar program in Western Australia, to which she has tentatively agreed.

I
said I would contact you and see if you could send me all the details and forms
etc that your club uses to setup and process this program.

I
am on broadband so can handle large files if you wish to send them via email.

Thank you Ron for your Request. I recommend that you contact
our Executive Director Andreas Rungatcher via e-mail at ny.rotary@verizon.net.
Andreas is the Maestro of these events and I am sure that he can help you with
information.

Rotary
is now gearing up for its Centennial celebration. I received the following
message from Past Rotary International Director Dan Mooers about a major event
in Portland and Litchfield,
Maine on July 23-24 this summer,
which will be attended by the new Rotary International President Glenn Estess:

Good Evening:

As you may know, Centennial President Glenn Estess is kicking off his year as
RI President by holding three "Founders' Recognition Days and
Celebrations." These will be held at Crestwood,
Illinois on July 19, 2004 honoring Paul Harris
and Silvester Schiele; at Carlinville, Illinois on July 20-21, 2004 honoring Gustavos Loehr; and
at Portland and Litchfield, Maine
on July 23-24, 2004 honoring Hiram E. Shorey.

Because the events are taking place so near the beginning of the new Rotary
year, I think it important to begin getting the word out about these events.

I am not certain what is planned for Crestwood and Carlinville,
Illinois, but since I am involved in the Portland, Maine and Litchfield, Maine
events, I can tell you a little about the plans so far for those events.

The Founders' Recognition Days honoring Hiram E. Shorey will begin in Portland, Maine
on Friday, July 23. The first event will be a Memorial Service at the EvergreenCemetery
in Portland at the grave site of Philip C.
Lovejoy, Second General Secretary of R.I., a Portland, Maine
native. Following the memorial service, President Glenn will be unveiling a new
marker near Phil Lovejoy's grave which will note his service to Rotary and
commemorate Rotary's centennial.

At Noon on Friday, there will be an Intercity Rotary Meeting, hosted by the
Rotary Club of Portland,
at Keeley's, 178 Warren Avenue, Portland,
because seats for this luncheon with President Glenn are limited to about 400
people, early reservations for this event are essential. Reservations may be
made by contacting President-elect Susan Brown at (207)775-1180 or
susanwbrown@gwi.net. Obviously the speaker at the luncheon will be President
Glenn Estess. The price for the luncheon is $19.00.

Following the luncheon, at 2:30 P.M., President Glenn will be planting of
Centennial Tree in honor of the Founders of Rotary, at the Rotary Grove, on the
Eastern Promenade, Portland,
Maine.

On Saturday, July 24, 2004, the venue changes to Litchfield,
Maine, the birthplace and home of Hiram Elmer
Shorey until he moved to Chicago
to undertake a trade. The events in Litchfield will begin with a Memorial
Service at the PlainsCemetery in Litchfield at
the Grave Site of Hiram E. Shorey. President Glenn will unveil there a new
marker at the ShoreyMonument commemorating
Rotary's Centennial.

Immediately following the memorial service, a Historical Marker at Shorey’s
Birthplace will be unveiled by President Glenn. That ceremony will be followed
by the Dedication of the "Hiram
E. Shorey Family History Center & Library" at the LitchfieldTown Hall. The HistoryCenter and Library is a Centennial
Project of the Rotary Clubs of Maine.
Litchfield, by the way, is located near the state capitol, Augusta,
Maine, and is
a very small farming community of about 2,500 residents. It has no Rotary club.

With all the formalities out of the way, President Glenn and Mary, beginning at
about 12:30 P.M., will enjoy with the residents of Litchfield and with
Rotarians from near and far a "Celebration of Rotary" and the Rotary Centennial at the
Litchfield Fair Grounds, Plains Rd. “A Family Cookout”, it will be
featuring Bean Hole Baked Beans and delicious food from around Maine prepared
by different Rotary clubs and local organizations. There will be Fellowship,
games, music, rides and fun for children of all ages. The focus of the
Family Cookout will be on children, with a farm animal petting zoo, donkey and
pony rides, cotton candy, popcorn, and a few rides and games for the younger
children. Live entertainment will fill the afternoon with music and the
opportunity to share Rotary with a lot of non-Rotarians will punctuate the
afternoon. There will be no charge for this event, although donations for food
and rides will be accepted by the various involved clubs and organizations.
Advance notification of planned attendance is requested.

Rotarians from over 15 states and several countries already have made
reservations for the events in Maine
celebrating the Founders of Rotary. We hope you will join in and enjoy a
beautiful summer weekend in Maine.
For those who want to come a few days early, a Rotarian is offering white water
rafting on one of Maine's
exciting wild rivers. I can provide you with more information about this and all
the planned events, as well as information on places to stay in the area. Just
contact me for more information.

I hope you will begin putting information about these events in your club and
district newsletters, and encouraging all Rotarians to participate in these
important events as we kick-off Rotary's Centennial year.

Dan Mooers played an
important part in our legendary Rotary Club’s history when he after 9/11 in
2001 sent a message urging us to open an account and collect money for the
victims of 9/11. Dan was at the time the Assistant to the President of Rotary
International. The result of Dan’s request was that our Rotary Club raised
approximately $1.5 million from Rotarians around the world for the victims of
9/11. This became the most successful Rotary Club fundraiser in Rotary’s 100
years history. You can read more about it on our website at www.nyrotary.org/wtc_disaster/wtc_disaster_page.htm.

Dan told me recently in a telephone conversation that the incoming
Rotary International President Glenn Estess would like us to learn more about
the original four Rotarians, who met on Dearborn Ave, Chicago in Room 711 on
February 23rd, 1905.

I have received additional
messages from Rotarians with comments about my decision to resign from writing
the New York
Rotary Newsletter and managing the New York Rotary Website on June 30th.
This message is from New York
Rotary Past President and Future District 7230 Governor Helen Reisler:

Dear Matts,

CONGRATULATIONS on a fantastic job with our New York Rotary Newsletter. The whole world
of Rotary was drawn to our club because of your warm, friendly and very
informative style of communicating. We were able to share information with each
other all over the globe. I especially want to thank you for working with me
during the tragedy of "9/11" when I was President of the Rotary Club
of New York.
We worked as a "communication team," which encouraged contributions
and kept everyone updated on our progress and humanitarian activities. I look
forward to working with you, again, as board members of the Rotary History
Global Fellowship.

Sincerely,

Helen Reisler

Past President

The Rotary Club of New York

District Governor
Nominee

Rotary District 7230
(2005)

Thank you Helen for your kind message, we created Rotary History
together after 9/11 in 2001. I now look forward working with you in Rotary’s
Global History Fellowship, documenting and informing about Rotary’s History.

I received the following message from Past District Governor
Doug Thistlewhite in South
Africa. He is an old friend of our
Rotary District 7230. We share many stories from the year 2002-2003, when we
had our Group Study Exchange with Rotary District 9250:

Dear
Matts,

I
would like to take this opportunity for the incredible work you put into the
weekly Rotary club New York's bulletin and especially the coverage given
on the Group Study Exchange Teams and the enormous grant towards furthering
education in District 9250, which has been an outstanding achievement. I hope
your successor keeps me on his mailing list and you and I must not loose
contact, as over the last three years you have via email and the bulletin
become a very close friend to me in Rotary.

Thanks
for your friendship

Doug
Thistlewhite

Past
District Governor

Rotary
District 9250

Thank
you Doug for your message, our relationship continues with the South Africa
AIDS Plus Program, where Past District Governor Chuck Katze is the Chairman
with an Advisory Council consisting of Rotary International Alternate
Representative Sylvan Barnet, Past District Governor Bob Benson, Past
District Governor Janet DiBenedetto, Past District Governor Glen Nygren,
Rotary Club of Upper Manhattan President Neil O’Connell, South African General
Counsel Ivan Vosloo (your protégé), Don Hubert and myself. As Group Study Exchange
Chairman, I promoted the vision of an ongoing Rotary Partnership between the
Rotary Districts 7230 and 9250. I am glad to see that this vision is coming
true.

Don't forget to reserve your table for our next
meeting. You can reserve via e-mail to our office at ny.rotary@verizon.net, or
call Andreas or Ana at 212-633-1311. You can also fax in the RSVP form, which
you can download at www.nyrotary.org/bulletin2004/rsvp_04-27-2004.pdf. Our fax number is 212-633-1954.
At our next meeting, the culinary staff at the Princeton
Club will serve us Salmon.

Matts Ingemanson

Chairman

The power of the
Internet puts the brains of millions of people together. It also puts 1.2
million Rotarians together. It does not matter where we are and when we are
available. The Internet makes it possible for Rotarians around the world to
instantly participate.

I want to thank our Executive Director
Andreas Runggatscher and his Executive Assistant Ana Rivas for working so hard
every week creating and mailing the Weekly Bulletin. In addition to mailing it
out to our members, they also send me the electronic Bulletin so I can upload
it on our website. They have also been working hard with the administration of
the WorldTradeCenter
- Disaster Relief Fund.

In order to read the PDF
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If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you can download Acrobat Reader 6.0 for free
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Rotary Radio. Windows Media Player is included with Windows Millennium and
Windows XP. If you use Windows 95 or Windows 98, you can download Windows Media
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